November 11th 1999

[Kalidor]

That was the day the Allspark came online. I can't even wrap my head around the fact that we've been here, in one form or another, for 25 YEARS!!

It's crazy how many are still here and how many have come in along the way.

To me The Allspark has always been about the community. I think what we have here is something that the broadly soulless and corporate owned social media of the 21st century just can't duplicate.

I think going forward I'm going to work towards bringing places like this back into the limelight. We can be so much better than what the internet has become.

I'm glad to those who have stuck around and I look forward to seeing you all for many more years to come.

We are one!

 

[Donocropolis]

Happy Anniversary! I've been enjoying this place since around 2005. The community and discussion here is something I've really come to treasure over the years. Let's do another 25 years.

 

[Haywire]

Wow, that is awesome! I know I found the Allspark much later, but it's cool to know how much of a Legacy the board has!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Merry Birthmas to the best Transformers community out there!

 

[Dake]

Woo, happy anniversary. The Wayback machine doesn't even go that far back - but it's close.

Didn't discover things quite that early myself but been here a while and thankful for it.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Huh, the Allspark shares my birthday (albeit not the year). Neat.

 

[tec]

Woooo Happy Birthday Allspark lets goooo

 

[Sabrblade]

So, it's Veterans Day in more ways than one.

 

[tec]

25 years with the best assholes of the internet myself included

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This place still feels like a bit of the old internet, in a good way.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I joined just a bit later, but been here for most of it.

 

[Gizmoboy]

I remember joining in 1999 as I had just gotten back into Transformers and had been using an old message board format out there (don't even remember the site) and someone mentioned a conversation at this new board. I jumped over an joined right after. I spent my first 8 years on the board as more of a lurker. I didn't contribute much and mainly just followed conversations people were having and getting my news here. Obviously that changed.

 

[tec]

ha ha sucker

 

[Shadhausen]

I didn't join until, I believe, February of 2000. I would have been 26, so the AllSpark has been around nearly half my life .

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I joined Allspark very late but I was browsing plenty of Transformers sites in 1999. Not plenty per day, but plenty in total.

Internet was slow back then.

 

[Sciflyer]

I lurked for a few years before officially joining, but this place has remained my internet home since 1999. I will agree that the sense of community here is much stronger than anything I have experienced on other sites (I'm not active on social media by choice). I still remember the banner on the site after 9/11, that had the Protectobots - and maybe a few other rescue-themed bots - stating, "We're here to help." Happy anniversary, and here's to many more years!

 

[Exatron]

It was a bit later for me. I had heard of Allspark, but I had previously joined TFW during the days when they were merged with Transfandom. I don't like to move around much, even online, so I stayed there until I think around 2010. At that point, I was trying to kill some time on a slow day at work, I think maybe on or around my birthday if I remember right. I found that our IT department had blocked TFW, but had not blocked Allspark. I decided to make an account and give it a try. I pretty quickly found it to be a lot more comfortable and ended up settling in here.

 

[Cybersnark]

I can't even remember when I joined (the early 2000s are a bit of a blur for me, what with college and uni and desperately looking for employment), but I'm glad I found this place.

 

[Deathy G1]

While I did have an EzSpark account, I really didn't move fully over from ATT until just after the split. Not sure when that was. Regardless, it feels like forever ago. Happy Anniversary to all!

 

[Kalidor]

The ezboard, such as it was, is barely a footnote in the long history of the Allspark. We split from that dump in 2000